Thursday, March 28, 2013

Three Stars (2010)

Three Stars (2010)


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Synopsis
Focusing on ten Michelin 3 Star chefs, Three Stars depicts the everyday drama of life in gourmet restaurants and includes exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access to some of the world’s most talented chefs as they work in their gastronomic laboratories, hunt for exquisite ingredients in local markets, and gather rare edible plants along rough coastlines. It reveals the business of cooking on the highest level and highlights the various kitchen routines and culinary philosophies of chefs like Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Yannick Alléno, and Olivier Roellinger.

Filmmaker Bio
LUTZ HACHMEISTER, Director / Producer

Lutz Hachmeister is a German media historian, award-winning filmmaker and journalist. He gained international attention for directing the 2005 BBC-co-produced film The Goebbels Experiment featuring Kenneth Branagh as the narrator for the Goebbels Diaries. In 2006 Hachmeister established the Institute for Media and Communications Policy (IfM) in Berlin and Cologne.

Hachmeister’s documentary about the life and death of Hanns Martin Schleyer, the former head of the German employers association, who was murdered in 1977 by the Red Army Faction, won a Grimme-Award (Germany’s most prestigious television prize) in 2004. The following year, The Goebbels Experiment premiered at the Berlin film festival und was selected as a New York Times critics’ pick.

Hachmeister currently heads the Institute for Media and Communication Policy and is considered to be “Germany's leading media expert” (Berliner Zeitung, 21/07/1997). The Institute is particularly known for its high-ranking media colloquia, which host international guests like Alan Rusbridger, Greg Dyke or Norman Pearlstine. Hachmeister is also the founder of the Cologne Conference, a “media Bauhaus” and festival for aesthetic and strategic trends in the audiovisual industry. (Source: firstrunfeatures.com)

Trailer:
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